Actress Savika “Pinky” Chaiyadej, 36, maintains that she was a victim duped into investing in the high-profile Forex-3D scheme, not someone who lured others into investing as alleged. (File photo: Apichart Jinakul) Actress Savika “Pinky” Chaiyadej on Tuesday won approval from the Criminal Court to […]
Charlene An (photo from her Instagram account) Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has insisted that any police officers involved in extorting money from a Taiwanese actress during her trip to Thailand early this month must face legal action. Commenting about the impact on the tourism industry, […]
Another bout of winter storms has brought icy conditions to large areas of the southern United States, causing transportation issues and leaving thousands of people without power. More than 1,600 flights have been cancelled, and authorities have reported an uptick in auto collisions due to […]
Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida in the southeast United States, has announced plans to block state colleges from having programmes on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as critical race theory (CRT). The Republican governor made public the proposal on Tuesday as part of […]
Ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies, known as OPEC+, will meet virtually on February 1. The meeting comes as the price of oil has rallied towards $90 a barrel. Al Jazeera’s Fidelis Mbah in Abuja, Nigeria, spoke to OPEC […]
A mass shooting that killed seven farmworkers in the United States last week has brought renewed attention to the hardships faced by agricultural workers in the state of California, stretched thin by low wages and the high cost of living. The shooting on January 23 […]
Pakistan is mourning at least 100 people killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar. The attack was the latest in a series blamed on the Tehreek-e-Taliban, also referred to as the Pakistan Taliban. It took place in a […]
Pope Francis has demanded that foreign powers stop plundering Africa’s natural resources for the “poison of their own greed” after he landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of a trip to two African nations. The 86-year-old Francis is the first pontiff to […]
Peshawar, Pakistan – Naib Rehman lies on his hospital bed with his leg wrapped in plaster. The 44-year-old recalls that as he stood for the afternoon prayer along with 300 other worshippers, a massive blast shook the mosque in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. […]
Pope Francis is visiting the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan this week. The 86-year-old leader of the Catholic church will start his trip on Tuesday in the Congolese capital Kinshasa before heading to Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on Friday. […]
